❝ Love better. Love wrongly even. Love clumsy and half out your mind. Love spectacular. And less so. Love with mistakes. And forgiveness. Tolerance. Humility. Love with all the lights on. Every light. Every love. Love at every inconvenience. Love hurt. Love spoiled. Love against your better judgement. Love out of your comfort zone. Love wild as ivy. Loud as lion roar. But love quiet when needed. Love hummingbird. Daisy chain. Love in whispers, and in waiting. Love in vulnerability. Love sacred. Love like the head that bends to the prayer mat. Love soft as holy bread. Love resurrection. Love second, third, one hundredth coming. Love in faith. And in loss of it. Love anyway. Love even though. Love just because, and in spite of. Love after the storm. Love devastation. Among the debris. Love humbly. And with apology. And without. Love unreasonably. Unwaveringly. Undone. Love undone. Love unasked. Love unaware of the consequences. Love with reckless optimism. Love earnest as a child. Hopeful as a birthday candle. Love like you don’t know better. Love like you don’t care to. ❞

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

1. Meeting her will be like the first time you heard your favorite song. You’ll listen to her speak, and though it may be unfamiliar, you somehow know that this will be important.2. You’ll find yourself staring at the back of her head, wondering how her hair could fall so perfectly. You’ll realize that not everyone else is as captivated as you and you’ll wonder why.3. She’ll tell you the about the tattoo on her foot and when her birthday is and stories about college. You’ll remember them all and she’ll tell you you have a good memory. You’ll tell her she has pretty eyes.4. You’ll go awhile without seeing her. You won’t realize how much space she occupied until she’s not there. You’ll wish the world was smaller.5. When you see her again, it will be like coming up for air after spending a beat too long underwater. Her hair will be a little longer but you can finally breathe again because you’re looking into her eyes instead of trying to remember the exact color of them. You’ll forget about every day that you went without her. You’ll forget that there was life before her name.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.

Does he treat you with respect at all times? That’s the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you’ve found a good man.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Loving someone should be hard and active, not easy and passive. When you sign up to actually love people – no fakers allowed – then you sign up for a life of runny noses, awkward car rides, hugs that last too long, pauses that demand no noise, and admitting you were wrong. If you want to actually love people then you have to be willing to be wrong.Love is forgiveness. And it’s atonement. And it’s basically like putting your soul in a washing machine – it’s not some gentle cycle, it’s a fierce whipping that rings you out good.It makes the stains fade.Best of all, it fills the holes.HANNAH BRENCHER

Members of the clergy sometimes say they convert themselves from the pulpit. By speaking out their faith, they make themselves faithful. People who live with passion do that.

By teaching or singing or writing or nursing or parenting they bring coherence to the scattered impulses we are all born with inside.

By doing some outward activity they understand and define themselves.

A life of passion happens when an emotional nature meets a consuming vocation.

Another trait that marks them is that they have high levels of both vulnerability and courage. As Martha Nussbaum wrote in her great book “Upheavals of Thought,” to be emotional is to attach yourself to something you value supremely but don’t fully control.

To be passionate is to put yourself in danger.

Living with this danger requires a courage that takes two forms.

First, people with passion have the courage to dig down and play with their issues.

We all have certain core concerns and tender spots that preoccupy us through life.

Writers and artists may change styles over the course of their careers,

but most of them are turning over the same few preoccupations in different ways.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

At the heart of our matter as human beings, really the best thing of all is passion.

Passion for another person, for a job, a cause, an idea, a place….

passion for a book when it’s good enough to light up the inside of your head.

Perhaps that’s what IT is all about– our Purpose: trying to furnish your life with so many different kinds of passion that everywhere in it there is something that fills you to bursting and makes you want to tell the whole world about it.

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It's about LOVE,
It's about COMPASSION,
It's about KINDNESS and FAITH,
It has nothing to do with LUCK.
You get what you give,
So give GOOD
"Anything is possible in our lives when we stop denying ourselves the chance to see our own potential."
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